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Sometimes the moon looks so close you believe you'll drive into it on a Friday night. Dan Chiasson is on one with ''The Math Campers.'' Existential and as real as [...]

The poem "Bicentennial" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Moving as a mind moves across a math problem, Last Line: One billion years ago, today, on its birthday.

Presents the poem "Where's the Moon, There's the Moon," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: If I look to the opposite shore and greet myself there, Last Line: will reunite, all grief erased. A family: a sketch of joy.

The poem "FROM Euphrasy & Rue" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: He asked me my happiest memory. Last Line: bedroom at the farm, his death, his absence.

The poem "The forest of crickets" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First line: Hard night, you're in my breathing now, Last Line: I stayed behind in the forest of crickets.

Presents the poem "Dream of the End of Reading," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: First my books grew stiff; Last Line: use. I never read one through.

The poem "Dreams" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: The mountains around him opened in great flashing crevasses and; Last Line: common sight they had seen before.

The poem "Dreams (2)" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: . . . and then again he was an eagle, hidden away in the branches, Last Line: he did not wish others to see.

The poem "Satellite" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Sitting in a swivel chair, high up above the Sound, he found an; Last Line: bouyed me."

The poem "Dream" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Half in, half out of my dream: Last Line: I'm the maypole they dance around.

Presents the poem "Stacked the Mind...," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: Stacked the mind with fear: In my room, age eight; Last Line: the eggs, the boring island, my regret, the chandelier.

Presents the poem "Here Follows an Account of the Nature of Birds," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: Here Follows an Account of the Nature of Fish. Last Line: Here Follows an Account of the Nature of Birds.

Presents the poem "A Posy," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: The cocklebur and ergot, horse chestnut, fescue taste not, Last Line: jimsonweed pokeweed say I am bread lupine say I am bread.

Presents the poem "Roman Song," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: S##t is the taste you want in your mouth, Last Line: Let everything you eat be your good food.

Presents the poem "When Spring Opens...," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: When spring opens the faucet out pours water, water; Last Line: flowers in this order: crocus, daffodil, tulip, lily.

The poem "From 'The Names of 1,001 Strangers'" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Tom the stutterer's brother; Last Line: since our friends are dead: we're aphids, alone on a dianthus.

Presents the poem "The Soil," by Dan Chiasson.

Presents the poem " The Elephant," an excerpt from "Natural History," by Dan Chiasson.

Presents the poem "My Ravine," by Dan Chiasson.

Presents the poem "Vermont," by Dan Chiasson.

The poem "Vermont," by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: I was the west; Last Line: throughfare. My signs are written twice.

The poem "Stealing From Your Mother," by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Knowing her schedule you're half; Last Line: what you did. No one is hearing your ornate confession.

The poem "Nowhere Fast" by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Give me your secret. Last Line: Or sea and sky.

The poem “Away We Go” by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: Little bird, little sugar cube, Last Line: While I piss my windfall zilch away?

The poem "The Boy in the Egyptian Wing," by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: The boy in the Egyptian wing; Last Line: To lower him in.

The article presents the poem "Titian Vs. Roadrunner," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: If you are made for flight, intended for it, Last Line: rattling around inside, just coughed it up.

Presents the poem "Bluet," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: Flowers have faces. They are happy or sad. Last Line: Nature just rolls right on, headless.

The article presents the poem "Thread" by Dan Chiasson. First Line: I lack the rigor of a lightning bolt, Last Line: Knowing me never made anyone a needle.

The article presents the poem "Needle's Eye," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: I wish I were as big as a basketball hoop. Last Line: will invent a game to make you hard to hit.

The article presents the poem "Man and Derailment," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: When the man took his son down the ravine; Last Line: and later, knew himself better, what it would mean.

The article presents the poem "Lincoln's Dream," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: It is impossible to state just how in love I am; Last Line: remember you are Lincoln having Lincoln's dream.

The article presents the poem "Train," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: You there, in the middle of your mind, Last Line: a throat that tries and tries to swallow dirt.

Presents the poem "Etruscan Song," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: No love like mine; no love; no love like mine; Last Line: and the cry turned night to day.

Presents the poem "Mosaic of a Hare, Corinium," by Dan Chiasson. First line: The boats pulling in, the boats pulling out, the top-hat; Last line: and all their pretty rabbit children, waiting to be casserole.

Presents the poem "Little Boy," by Dan Chiasson. First line: For a quarter you get a mass, for a half you make a; Last line: there, after a little catnap, we snip old magazine ads.

Presents the poem "There Is a Star in the Sea," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: There is a star in the sea, and it burns up everything; Last Line: rusted galleon in the night sky, and I will pray to it.

Presents the poem "Pliny I & II," by Dan Chiasson. First Line: I stepped on a bird this morning. It had fallen between; Last Line: peoples' bodies doing as bodies will against the wall?

The poem "Easter," by Dan Chiasson is presented. First Line: The hotel will forgive the wrecking ball. Last Line: You are no sinner! You will never die.